Baker s and confectioner s depositing apparatus



(ModeL) R. MEGSON. BAKERS AND OONPBOTIONERS DEPOSITING APPARATUS.

Patented Oct. 25, 1892.

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H I ll l l ll RICHARD MEGSON, OF CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS.

BAKERS AND CONFECTIONERS DEPOSITING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 484,937, dated October 25, 1892.

Application filed June 25, 1892. Serial No. 437,947. (Model) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD MEGSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cambridge, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bakers and Confectioners Depositing Apparatus, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification.

The object of my invention is to produce tubes for bakers and confectioners use that when used in connection with a partitioned bag or a machine having a partitioned hopper, cakes or confections of more than one color are produced.

The invention consists of a tube having a series of openings upon its face, said openings communicating with the different portions of the tube, which are separated by a partition or partitions of any desired form to conduct the material of the desired color to the required opening in the face, and also in a bag having a partition or partitions to contain the colored material.

Referring tothe accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a vertical section through a bag and tube embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of a tube for forming a cake in six sections and of a star shape, each section alternating in color. Fig. 3 is a plan or top View of the same. Fig. 4 is a vertical section taken on line 0000 of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a view of the face or under side. Fig. 6 is a side view of a tube for forming cakes of stripes of alternating colors. Fig. 7 is a plan or top view of same. Fig. 8isa vertical section taken on line y y of Fig. 7. Fig. 9 is a vertical section of a tube for forming a cake of seven sections-a central one and six sections around the sameand a drop orbutton in the center of each section, all of which are alternatingin color. Fig. 10 is a plan or top view of the'same. Figs. 11, 12, and 13 are respectively plan or top view, vertical section, and view of the under side of a tube for ornamentin g cakesin two colors. Figs. 14, 15, and 16 are respectively plan or top view, vertical section, and view of the under side of a tube for forming a cake in the form of a spray of three feathers.

A represents a conical bag of canvas or other suitable material having a central partition a. The small end of this bag is socured to the outer casing of a tube B,having a bar 1) across its upper end, to which the central partition (1 is secured, so that dough of different colors placed in the compartments 1 2 will be conducted to the tube simultaneously. 1n the tube P is fitted a former C, which conducts the dough and deposits it so that the colors are alternating. The conical bag A is at its upperor larger end provided with three or more eyelet-holes a, by which the bag can be suspended to any suitable hooks or stapleswhilebeing filled with doughorcont'ection. The tube is shown on a larger scale in Figs. 2, 3, 4, and 5, B being the tube proper, and G the former, which is closed at its base 0, except where the dough has to pass out, and around three sides of the openings are formed small lips d, so as to guide the dough and cause it to spread out slightly toward the outer edge. The former is divided by a partition 6, so arranged that the dough on one side is deposited through the two outer openings on that side and conducted through the central opening on the opposite side, whereby the sec- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.-

tions of the cake alternate in colorthat is to say, the dough from the compartment 1 will be caused to pass out through the openings 3, (see Fig. 3,) while the dough from the compartment 2 will be caused to pass out of the openings 4. The tube B is at its upper end formed with an internal screw-thread, and the partition e of the former O is formed with notches corresponding thereto, so that the latter can be screwed into the tube B. A suitable stop, which may consist of a small piece of steel spring f, secured at its inner end to the bottom of the former, as shown in Fig. 5, its outer end being held between two small wedgeshaped proj ect-ions g g on the edge of the tube B, so that when the former is screwed into the tube the spring will ride over one of the projections g and fall into the recess between them; but any convenient stop may be employed, so as to bring the partition e at right angles to the cross-bar b.

In Figs. 6, 7, and 8 Ihave shown a tube for forming cakes of stripes of alternating col- In this case the partition 6 is split or divided for a short distance at its lower end into five parts, and every alternate part 5 5 5 is bent and has its end secured to one side of the tube, while the other parts 6 6 are bent and secured to the other side of the tube.

In Figs. 9 and 10 I have shown a tube for forminga cake of seven sections-via, a central one and six around the sameand with a drop or button in the center of each section of a color in contrast to the color of the section upon which the drop or button is made. In this case the partition or partitions e is or are of irregular form, as shown, so that the dough delivered from the compartment 7 passes through the outer tubes 8 and inner or drop tubes 8', and from the compartment 9 through the outer tubes 10 andinner tubes 10.

In Figs. 11, 12, and 13 I have shown a tube for ornamenting cakes. In this case the partition c is constructed similar to the partition a, as described with reference to Figs. 6, 7, and 8, but in circular form, and the baseplate g is formed with a series of holes 11, through allot which the dough on one sideof the partition e passes. A small tube 12 leads from the base-plate g to the opposite side of the partition a so that a central drop is deposited of one color, eight drops of a different color are deposited around the same, and the outer drops are deposited, so that the outer portion of the cake is arranged in alternate colors, the partition e extending half around the tube to form a chamber through which the dough from one compartment is led to the other side of the tube.

In Figs. 14 to 16 I have shown a tube arranged to produce a cake in the form of a spray of three feathers. In this case the partition 6 extends across the upper portion of the tube, but also divides said tube into three parts, so that the dough from the compartment 13 will pass through the central opening 13 to form the representation of the central feather, while the dough from the compartment 14 will be deposited through the openings 15 to form the representation of the outer feathers.

It will be seen that I have shown and described tubes that are divided practically by one partition of irregular form and which are applicable only for dough of two colors; but should it be desired to have more than two be produced by tubes arranged in a similar 7 manner.

Although I have shown and described the dough-conducting partitions inclosed'in a tube, it is obvious that when applied to a'machine having a partitioned hopper that the tubes may be dispensed with and the doughconducting partitions secured to or formed in one with the design-plate.

What I claim is-- 1. A tube having a series of outlets and a partition or partitions, in combination with a partitioned bag or hopper, whereby the contents of one compartment of the bag or hopper will be conducted to a series of openings and the contents of the other compartments to another series of openings, so that the colors will be alternating, as set forth.

2. A tube for bakers and confectioners use, consisting of an outer tube having an internal screw-thread at its upper end and a former having'a series of openings upon its face and a partition or partitions, whereby 1 the contents from a partitioned bag or hopper can be deposited in the manner as set forth.

3. In a cake-machine, tubes or design-plates, each having a partitionor series of partitions inclosed therein and a series of openings in the face of said tubes or design-plates communicating with compartments formed by said partition or partitions, whereby cakes each consisting of sections of more than one color are produced, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, on this 10th day of June, A. D. 1892.

RICHARD MEGSON.

Witnesses:

CHAS. STEERE, EDWIN PLANTA. 

